Dennis J. Hutchinson : Additional Activities
External Activities
Co-Chairman, Committee on Resolutions, Memorial Service of the Supreme Court Bar for Byron R. White, Nov. 18, 2002, Washington, D.C.
Member, Board of Directors, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, 1998-2006
Chair, Aydelotte-Kiefer-Sutherland Book Fund Committee, 1998-2006
Referee: University of Chicago Press; Oxford University Press
Member, Board of Directors, Great Books Foundation, from 1996-2002
Editor, The Supreme Court Review, since 1981
Consultant, World Book Encyclopedia, Inc.
Member, Committees of Selection, American Rhodes Scholarships
- Georgia (1974)
- Delaware (1975-80)
- District II (1975-76)
- Illinois (1983-1991, 1997)
- Kansas (1992)
- District V (1998-2004), Secretary
- District X (2005), Secretary
Member, Boards of Overseers, Bowdoin College, 1975-87, Trustees, since 1987
Co-Director, Institute for Constitutional Studies (Supreme Court Historical Society), June 1999. "The Aims of Education" (Annual Address to Entering Students in The College), Sept. 19, 1999
Member, Board of Education, Illinois Community Consolidated School District No. 181 (K-8), 1987-1995 (President, 1993-1995)
Supreme Court contributing editor, WBEZ (FM) Radio (NPR), Chicago, 1990-1997
Convocation Speaker, The University of Chicago, June 8-9, 1990 ("Two Cheers for Robert Maynard Hutchins")
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Montana State University, January 1986 (Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, "History, Modesty and Constitutional Interpretation," class lectures on "Law, Authority and Legitimacy in Billy Budd" and "Rights of Persons and Rights of Things Today")
Member, Governing Committee, Hyde Park Union Church Nursery School, 1982-84
AMPART Lecturer (USIA), November-December 1983, on American Constitutional Law, in Denmark (Aarhus University), Italy (Trieste, Bologna, Milan, Rome), F. R. G. (Heidelberg, Bonn)
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-1986
Summer Stipendary Fellow, American History and Law, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Chicago, IL., June 12-July 21, 1978
President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, 1974-76
Professional Awards
Professional Awards AMOCO Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching, 1992
University of Chicago nominee, Professor of the Year Award, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), 1988, 1989
Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1984
Peter B. Ritzma Associate Professor, The College, The University of Chicago, 1981-82
Academic Service and Administration (University of Chicago)
Master, New Collegiate Division, and Associate Dean of the College, from 1992 (reappointed, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004)
Program Chairman, Law, Letters & Society, from 1992
PERL (Politics, Economics, Rhetoric and Law)
Program Chairman, 1987-1992
Program Associate Chairman, 1982-87
Committees
Chair, Board of Student and Campus Life, 2002-2004
Chair, Lectureship Review Committee in the College, 1989-1991
Member (elected), Committee of the College Council, 1989-1990
Member (appointed), University Council on Teaching, 1989-1994
University Adviser for Marshall Scholarships in the College, 1989-1997
British Scholarships Committee, 1990-1997 (Chair), 2006-present
Member, Board of Athletics and Recreational Sports, 1991-1994
Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 1994-1995
Chair, Drafting Committee, College Curriculum Review Committee, 1997
Member, Search Committee: Dean of Students in the College, 2001
Chair, Search Committee: Vice President and Dean of Students in the University, 2001
Board of Student and Campus Life
Member, 2001-2004
Chair, 2002-2004
Chair, Steering Committee, Task Force on Housing, 2002
Member, Board of University Publications, 2003-2006
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Study of the Principles of the American Founding, 2006-present
Member, Campus Security and Safety Committee, 2008
